Is Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ: VLY) Still A Buy After A 13.42% Weekly Jump?

During the recent session, Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY)’s traded shares were 3.67 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.09. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $9.26, reflecting an intraday gain of 2.38% or $0.22. The 52-week high for the VLY share is $11.22, that puts it down -21.17 from that peak though still a striking 30.13% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $6.47. The company’s market capitalization is $4.71B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 6.7 million shares, and the average trade volume was 6.04 million shares over the past three months.

Valley National Bancorp (VLY) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.64. VLY has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 3 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.

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Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) trade information

Valley National Bancorp (VLY) registered a 2.38% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 2.38% in intraday trading to $9.26, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 13.42%, and it has moved by 13.14% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 4.22%. The short interest in Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY) is 38.13 million shares and it means that shorts have 6.91 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $12, which implies an increase of 22.83% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $9 and $14 respectively. As a result, VLY is trading at a discount of -51.19% off the target high and 2.81% off the low.

Valley National Bancorp (VLY) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Valley National Bancorp has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Valley National Bancorp (VLY) shares have gone up 19.11% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -33.96% against -6.20.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 4.85%. While earnings are projected to return -34.24% in 2024, the next five years will return 5.00% per annum.

VLY Dividends

Valley National Bancorp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2024-Oct-24. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Valley National Bancorp is 0.44, with the dividend yield indicating at 4.75 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 4.44%.

Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ:VLY)’s Major holders

Valley National Bancorp insiders own 1.49% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 81.33%, with the float percentage being 82.56%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 449.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 71.14 million shares (or 13.9943% of all shares), a total value of $496.55 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 45.55 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 8.9604% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $317.93 million.